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Deontology 15
Foundation of 15 Extra regarding
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That in respect of any action or mode of being
the sympathy excited in favor of a man should
be strong in proportion to its conduciveness to the
happiness of the whole community, this is what
of course is always to be desired; this however is
not always the state of things that has place.
Sympathy in favor of a man has been in too many
instances excited not by acts conducive, but by acts
detrimental, and that in the highest degree to human
happiness: for example by victory and conquest:
i e by slaughter devastation and Depredation
each committed from the largest scale:
So likewise by the acquisition or possession of power
in the most unbounded quantity howsoever
exercised and employed.
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Even where of the act by which the sympathy
is excited the consequences have been in
some respects beneficial to the community it
may have happened in other respects they may have
been of the opposite cast the good produced being
neither pure, nor preponderant. Of sympathy, by
whatsoever act or mode of being excited the natural tendency is,
to give birth to acts of a similar description
in the breasts of in which it is excited, and in those
by which the expression given to it has been observed
the idea can not operate in the character of a motive
in the mind any otherwise than in so far
as in the very time of the operation it is present
to the mind. If in any act the consequences
of which are partly beneficial, partly pernicious
but in a preponderant degree pernicious,
those which are pernicious, happen to be exclusively
present to the mind the effect will or tendency of the
sympathy in this case will be to give birth to
in a preponderant degree pernicious to the
community.
29.
Proceed to shew how the moral sanction
is perverted in its direction by a
sympathy ted
to as above by
an act of beneficial
indeed but in
in sympathy
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